Hello people, I guess I'm still a bit of a newbie concerning the topic of creating unattended XP setups which might explain why I do not get this to work. Like many of you, I own a valid XP SP2 cd that I want to spare so I thought I could make a nice unattended setup for both backup purposes and for the sake of a nicer, more personal result. What I did: -I user nLite (latest version as of now) to rip my XP-SP2 legal and stand-alone CD -I also tried this later on by copying the files manually to my HDD and selecting them there -Integrated some driverpacks and all latest hotfixes -Integrated some nice addons which I took from the forums here and from the nlite-os website -Configured windows to my preferences, nothing special so far, just using the nLite GUI -Let nLite compile the new cd for me: 880 MB big or so -Let nLite make an ISO for me -Equipped the ISO in deamon tools, connected the drive to VMware -and later on loaded the ISO directly in VMware itself. The result was everytime (from the top of my head): "Windows has not detected a previous Windows installation, it wants to verify if you qualify to use this upgrade"... insert some previous Windows installation disk... :S I have ripped these files from a standalone CD, it's no upgrade CD! I also tried to make an ISO using UltraISO, using the exact same bootrecord that was used on the original CD. Didn't work either. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...amp;mode=linear http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry474939 These forum discussions I have found match my error yet their solutions didn't seem to help me (or I implemented them wrongly)... In short: I cannot get my WinXP-SP2 install to get past the point of checking for a valid pre-XP installation to upgrade, while that check shouldn't be necessary in the first place! If someone sees a solution for this, any help will be greatly appreciated! ps: I have now also redone the whole process, just copied the cd to local drive, started nLite, left out all drivers and addons, same error still!